What "link" are you including?
It only requires the video's ID, not a full URL link.

Also, maybe the video is just a real slow loader

still won't work it now just shows the raw code on the post now !

and I tried it with google video - it never plays, the interface comes up unlike youtube but nothing happens when I press the play button.

A link to your blog would be extremely useful ;)

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http://www.rossedwards.co.uk/swing/blogs/index.php

don't ask why the smiley face came up on the youtube link - i didn't type that !

Silly question, you have ticked the box for the you tube renderer ( not that I know if it has one, I'm still catching up with the fact that they have colour tv's nowadays!) ... anyway, if there is one, it'll be at the bottom right of your edit screen ;)

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I just installed the youtube plugin - and even that didnt work !

I got the following after waiting for ages :
Sorry, there has been a page error
The server could not complete your request.

what the hell's wrong with my install ?

Um... you have a YouTube ID at the top of the post but your trying to play a Google video???????

The ID that you have also doesn't work on my site.....

Here's what the source code says...

<p>
[video:youtube<img src= "http://www.rossedwards.co.uk/swing/blogs/rsc/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="middle" />WW6QeeVzDc]
</p>

<div class="videoblock">
<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id=
"VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
src=
"http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8071705948451371164&amp;hl=en"
flashvars="" />

That Google video is also a non player

ok I got the google video working by putting a '-' before the vid id

and for youtube, it's confusing what code to use as some have 'v=' or '-' as prefix.

but it's all working

cheers guys